I live in Pune, India. Have been introduced to Goenkaji, has read on
theravada and want to pursue it.

Ong Yong Peng

Dear Vishwanath and friends, I am just curious. Does namaste has the same root as Pali namassati? Do they have the same meaning? From the PED, namassati is a

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, Jan 3, 2005

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Dear Vishwanath and friends,

I am just curious. Does namaste has the same root as Pali namassati?
Do they have the same meaning?

From the PED, namassati is a verb, meaning to pay honour to, to
venerate, to do homage to.

What about namaste?

Thank you.

metta,
Yong Peng.

rett

... namaste = namas te namas is a noun, and te is a second person dative enclitic form. honour to you. namas is the Sanskrit form which in Pali is almost

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>Dear Vishwanath and friends,
>
>I am just curious. Does namaste has the same root as Pali namassati?
>Do they have the same meaning?
>
>>From the PED, namassati is a verb, meaning to pay honour to, to
>venerate, to do homage to.
>
>What about namaste?

namaste = namas te

namas is a noun, and te is a second person dative enclitic form. honour to you.

namas is the Sanskrit form which in Pali is almost always represented
by 'namo' as in "namo tassa bhagavato" (note the dative/genitives).
One could also say "namo buddhaaya", using an explicitly dative form.

I believe the verb namassati is a denominative verb, that is to say a
verb derived by adding the '-ya' suffix to a noun. namas + ya + ti.
the 'y' assimilates to the preceding -s- yielding namas-sa-ti.

----- Original Message -----
> From: rett
>
> namaste = namas te
>
> namas is a noun, and te is a second person dative enclitic form.
honour to you.
>
> namas is the Sanskrit form which in Pali is almost always
represented by 'namo' as in "namo tassa bhagavato" (note the
dative/genitives). One could also say "namo buddhaaya", using an
explicitly dative form.
>
> I believe the verb namassati is a denominative verb, that is to say
a verb derived by adding the '-ya' suffix to a noun. namas + ya + ti.
the 'y' assimilates to the preceding -s- yielding namas-sa-ti.

Vishwanath Manjunath

I think its sanskrit namah + te = namaste is sanskrit. Means salutations to you .I do not know how it is said in pali. Where can we get pali grammar

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, Jan 3, 2005

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"I think its sanskrit namah + te = namaste"

is sanskrit. Means "salutations to you".I do not know how it is said in pali.

... The reason I prefer to write namas is that the stem form really is namas, with a final -s, like manas, apsaras. This is visible from the forms

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, Jan 4, 2005

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>I think its sanskrit namah + te = namaste

The reason I prefer to write 'namas' is that the stem form really is
namas, with a final -s, like manas, apsaras. This is visible from the
forms namaskaroti and namasyati, and is the form in which the word
is cited in Apte, for example. There is a sandhi rule that 's' in
final position > visarga (.h) but I wouldn't apply it in the above
explication since it involves the detour: s > .h > s

best regards,

/Rett

R.O.Jadhao

anyways.. namaste and namaskar are most widely salutations used in India. They can be used at any time of the day (as opposed to good morning etc.) Rajendra

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, Jan 4, 2005

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anyways.. namaste and namaskar are most widely salutations used in India.
They can be used at any time of the day (as opposed to good morning etc.)